Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [verb] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 2 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 3 | I 'd like to put a little business down his way . |
| 4 | I 'd like to say a little bit about this table . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I — I 'd like to wait a little while , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | Sit down , my dear , I 'd like to have a little chat with you . |
| 7 | I 'd like to have a little talk with you . ’ |
| 8 | There are lots of planting opportunities left for the season : I would like to try a little herbary , for example , and go for a bigger emphasis on autumn colour . |
| 9 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 10 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 11 | The rules for this are complicated , but you can claim various reliefs , so you may have to pay a little or nothing , particularly if you sell within three years . |
| 12 | Not Tristan though , who might like to flirt a little and might not run too fast should he be himself pursued but who was certainly no beast of prey . |
| 13 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 14 | Then you 'll enjoy seeing a little bit more of it . ’ |
| 15 | Which could be a bit nasty , you know and then she 'd say buy a little bag for me , a chick , a chick , a chick , a chickita |
| 16 | At the same time she 'd need to ring a little hand-bell . |
| 17 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 18 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 19 | Those who will have to work a little bit harder to reach their full potential , coming from east of the Rockies where rugby is a spring and summer game , are Alberta scrum-half Tom Liddle , Newfoundland flanker or no.8 Rod Snow and the Ontario trio of Charron , Lougheed and Scott MacKinnon , a fullback or centre and brother of Gordon . |
| 20 | If you learned to fly on an American machine , you will expect to apply a little left foot as you raise the collective and increase the power . |
| 21 | Perhaps we should try showing a little tolerance towards each other . |
| 22 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 23 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |
| 24 | We 'll have to do a little detective work on it . |
| 25 | We 'll have to do a little pas de deux here and turn the car around . |
| 26 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 27 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 28 | A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two . |
| 29 | If he brought her any more , then they would have to have a little talk . |
| 30 | He must have made a little joke . |